Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl

Holding: A lawsuit by a trade association of retailers, alleging that a Colorado law requiring retailers that do not collect sales or use taxes to notify any Colorado customer of the state’s tax requirement and to report tax-related information to those customers and the Colorado Department of Revenue violates the federal and state constitutions, is not barred by the Tax Injunction Act.

Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 9-0, in an opinion by Justice Thomas on March 3, 2015. Justice Kennedy filed a concurring opinion. Justice Ginsburg filed a concurring opinion, in which Justice Breyer joined, and in which Justice Sotomayor joined in part.

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Thomas, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. Kennedy, J., filed a concurring opinion. Ginsburg, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Breyer, J., joined, and in which Sotomayor, J., joined in part.

Aug. 2015

In a conversation with Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, Justice Samuel Alito reflects upon (among other things) his arrival on the Court, recent First Amendment cases, the themes in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, and his love for baseball.